so that is one way joe biden could do this. but this has been untested by the courts, so it's unclear whether this is a measure he could take. but the bottom line here is republicans are not going to help democrats and democrats are trying to figure out how they're going to do this. and the clock is ticking. they're running out of time. >> all right, daniela. as the world turns on capitol hill, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> it really is a soap opera, but with really dangerous consequence. not raising the debt limit is raising concerns. it could mean financial stress for world markets. >> we don't know for sure we would have significant volatility in the markets. and we'd see some breakages in the system. there is such a base of treasuries that under pins our entire capital markets that if that were to go into default, we'd be in for some of the greatest challenges we've seen in our financial sector. >> yeah, let me be clear. the entire global financial system is built around america borrowing money and always paying the

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that's clearly not where joe biden sits right now. in terms of navalny, he couldn't have been clearer. he says that russia has little or no attention of abiding by basic or fundamental human rights if navalny dies. that's a striking comment from the president of the united states and then what does the united states do in our relationship. i think there's a lot on the table here and biden knows it. i think he wants it. >> before that, our colleague asked do you still and the standby your comments that he's a killer. as you noticed, he did not want to directly go there and answer that. it's clear he was choosing his words carefully but he was saying the message loud and clear. josh, i want to bring you in. global opinion columnist, biden met with putin before. what is your view? is he at an advantage? >> yes, i do think biden set the table here by meeting with almost every nato allied leader before sitting down with putin and that was designed to put the wind at his back so he could represent not just himself but the transatlantic alli

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. >> joe biden suggests that if you don't do lockdown policies, then i should, quote, get out of the way. let me tell you this. if you ireare coming after the rights of parents in florida, i'm standing in your way. why don't you get this border secure? until you do that, i don't want to hear a blip about covid from you. >> reporter: he said masks should be up to the parents. it's their choice. he also said they could pull funding from these districts if they defy him. broward county, the second largest district in the state has now she issued a mask manda. du duvall county also requiring masks and alachua county requiring masks for the first week of school. finally, leon county where tallahassee is, the superintendent wrote a letter t to the governor asking for flexibility and awe on the auto. >> randi kaye in daytona beach, florida for us. >>> let's go to wisconsin now. massive crowds outside the milwaukee bucks arena last month when the team won the national championship. a lot of people say if you're outside, you have a better shot of holding off from getting this virus. 65,000 pe

listen. >> this campaign in texas is not going to be about joe biden. it's not going to be about donald trump. it's not going to be about anyone from outside of our state. this is going to be about the people of texas and what the people of texas want. >> does that mean that you would prefer that he not come based on what you just said? >> it means that i'm focused on texas and on my fellow texans. those are the people most important to me. there is no politician, no other person from outside the state who can help to change the course of the election for better or worse. that's why i'm traveling to every part of the state, to make sure no one is written off, no one is taken for granted and we keep the focus on texas. . >> what do you think? >> politics 101. midterm elections are almost always tough for the president's party. you try to localize and separate. what is he at in texas? there is a larger point here. when bill clinton was elected in '92, california was a swing state. he had someone in the white house who thought about how do i move californi

joe biden. alex marquardt, you're getting some more information, update our viewers. >> well, wolf, we've moved back a little bit, since we spoke to you last, a large crowd of these rioters, a mob of them, descended on the press area where we were, i believe that was the area that our colleague pete was talking about, clearly not fans of the way that we have been depicting them, which is a mob of violent rioters. and so now, the question becomes, when does law enforcement go in and clear this area? it has just been a surreal afternoon watching this crowd go in and get into the capitol building. so, what we've seen over the course of the past couple of hours is different kinds of law enforcement gathering around the capitol. what you're seeing right here is metropolitan police department, so, washington police, as you've been noting, wolf, we are under and hour now from the curfew. it is not clear whether they plan on going in and helping clear out those rioters before the curfew, but that is cer

from president joe biden who spoke to netanyahu six times in recent days over this military campaign. and on the israeli side the military feeling as though they had reached most of their objectives, they wanted to degrade hamas' ability to launch rockets towards israelis, wanted to target hamas commander houses and especially this tunnel system that runs beneath the gaza strip, the israelis saying that that was a key part of the hamas operations how they were hiding weapons, moving people about, but israel never launched a ground offensive like they did in the past, clearly thinking that that would be perhaps a step too far, just sticking with this air strikes and of course the offensive along the border, but now the question is what comes next? of course, gaza needs to be rebuilt, the u.s. said that they will help lead the effort. this will cost billions of dollars. this will take some time and there will be concerns amongst international donors how they can make sure that all of this money that will be funneled into the gaza strip will go to these humanitarian efforts and not towar

mainly people of color who voted for joe biden. think about this. >> chris said this to me as we were talking and he made a very good point. all of these people and all of these places have voted where donald trump were republicans, do you think they would be trying to change the law? huh? nope. there it is again. it is racism. right at the heart of this. as it is and so much in america's ligfe. it is been there from the beginning. we can't keep it under the rug. you have to do the work. you can't say i want to do something, what can i do, what can i do and when people tell you what to do you go oh, that's too hard. can't do it. i need something that's practical and easy. you got to do the work. you got to talk about this, it is all about relationships. that's why i wrote my book. this is a fire. what i said to my friends about ra racism. it starts with conversations. conversations with people that don't look like you. people that don't look like you who just need to talk about. racism is about the heart of all this. look at the ef

a 46-point margin over his nearest primary opponent for joe biden. so it's not just the general election. the reason that joe biden won that primary last year was because of black voters, and it was because of voters who really wanted him to address the issues of race relations and uniting the country. >> i went down there and went to a polling place and spoke to him and interviewed him, and we saw -- >> i remember that. >> and we saw the difference. i said, look, people there loved him, right? that he had this connection, especially with black voters. then you saw what transpired after that. astead, biden said that his inauguration speech, that we can deliver racial justice. he said we can't stop here after the verdict of derek chauvin, the murder trial. he's clearly not shying away from confronting racial injustice head-on. does he see this as his best opportunity to get real change? >> i think so. i think you see an agenda laid out by president biden that tries to address these in a lot of areas, not just criminal justice where we often talk about

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after joe biden won and after president trump's big lie that he didn't win was revealed to be a sham, what's happening in states with republican governors and legislatures is a dramatic effort to roll back voting rights so that we can squeeze and choke the electorate so they can't participate. hr-1 and s-1 are bills to make sure we protect people's rights to vote. and that bill passed out of the house, and now on the senate, we're going to take it up in the senate in committee and on the floor. and we're going to let the republicans show what they think about voters and participation. and look, if they decide that they want to block voters and participation, the same way that the filibusterers in the 1960s did, then we're going to have a moment of reckoning on the floor of the senate to decide whether senate rules are more important than people's rights and ability to participate in this democracy. >> that side of the aisle is calling hr-1 devil's work. they had someone stand up on the floor of the house today and say those blm folks, they don't like our idea of what a family is about

and the truth is that joe biden won the election here in pennsylvania by just over 80,000 votes. sadly, there are some people that just simply can't accept reality and this state senator is one of them. >> just to be clear, i mean, do any counties or election officials have to legally comply with the demand from, as you say, one republican state senator who is apparently arguing he's justified in doing this because he's chair of the state senate intergovernmental operations committee? >> right. right, no. he issued what seemingly is a demand letter of those three counties. i made a very clear statement to those counties today that they should not comply. the governor of the commonwealth made a similar statement. obviously their solicitors will advise them what to do, but i'm strongly urging them not to comply. this would cost the taxpayers millions and millions of dollars. this rogue state senator is demanding the election machines, the paper ballots, the technology used to run elections. if he were to receive them, play this hypothetical out, and then provided it to a third part

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. >>> it's been nearly four weeks since joe biden said the drove no longer controls our lives. it's clear that we are far from where he hoped we would be at this point. >> yeah. with the delta variant ravaging so much of this country, the president has been forced to shift his tone and keep his main focus on covid. >> let's go to cnn's kevin liptac. there's a mix of frustration and exhaustion from the white house. what are you learning about what's happening in the walls? >> reporter: this is a turning point in the pandemic for the president but it's not the turn he wanted to be taking at this point. in august rising cases forcing the president to take ever more action in combatting the virus including steps he had been reluctant to take like requiring federal workers to attest they had been vaccinated and going through these steps. telling the pentagon to mandate the vaccine for military service members. these are things the president had sought to avoid earlier on there. had been worries about the political backlash and pushing people away from the vaccine by taking those ste

no, not president biden, joe manchin, senator from ruby red west virginia. he does appear to be the key 50th vote in the senate, and he has struck a position

biden. now for the next how many months donald trump is going to be front and center and the potential charges against him. >> dave aaronberg, what does this mean potentially? could we expect formal charges against the former president or his associates? and how soon? >> it's hard to say how soon, although i would think you would see the charges by the end of this year, because that's when cyrus vance, jr., the manhattan d.a., is leaving office. he clearly doesn't want to leave this decision to his successor. i think it's going to happen sometime this summer. this grand jury is supposed to last for six months, so we don't know when they're going to come out with their decision. keep in mind this investigation started in 2018. cyrus vance, jr., went to the u.s. supreme court twice to chase down trump's taxes. now they've got trump's taxes. to me, the only question is will allen weisselberg be called to testify in front of the grand jury. they want somebody to narrate the story. there's a lot

biden an his vision, his vision for america's working families. >> reporter: it seems like every time we ask pelosi about this process, she tells everyone to calm down, this is the way that legislation is written, it takes time, it requires a lot of negotiating among a lot of different groups with different interests. she remains confident they will be able to get both packages passed and put into law. the question, wolf, is when will that happen and in what form? that remains something we still don't have the answer to. >> ryan, thank you very much. >>> let's discuss right now with a key player in all these negotiations, democratic congressman josh gottheimer. he took part in president biden's meetings with moderate lawmakers yesterday. congressman, thank you for joining us. i know you say you're optimistic on infrastructure and the bigger spending plan. what needs to happen in the next three days to make that a reality? >> i share the speaker's optimism, that we're going to get there monday. we have an historic piece of legislation coming to the floor monday for consideration on inf

breaking overnight, the first known military action under commander in chief joe biden against an iranian backed target in syria. retaliation for troops. oren lieberman starts us off. >> reporter: the strikes against a position in eastern syria were the first known strikes under the administration of president joe biden. secretary of defense lloyd austin said he recommended the strikes and biden himself gave the authorization on thursday morning. a u.s. defense official said a handful of militants were killed in the strikes. the strikes come after the recent rocket attacks against u.s. and coalition forces in erbil and in the green zone itself. >> we're confident that target was being used by the same shia militia that conducted the strikes. we allowed and encouraged the iraqis to investigate and develop intelligence and that was very helpful to us in refining the target. >> reporter: it's important to note the messaging here. this was not a strike against a major site, it was proportional and meant to send a message. there will be a response for future rocket attacks. this was a deterren

the president ordered an executive action on ghost guns, and joe biden has a long-standing history about talking about gun safety laws, and i guess that emphasizes the point when he and i were in the senate, we were pushing for legislation. congress has to act, because we have to codify -- that's a fancy word for make permanent, make the law that we agree, we should have background checks. that's just reasonable gun safety laws. we should have an adult weapons ban, and assault weapons have been designed to kill a lot of people quickly. they are weapons of war. congress has to act, dana. i was recently in connecticut. senators murphy and blumenthal and the governor there, so many people, the families of sandy hook. i honestly thought -- i honestly thought, when those babies, 26 7-year-old children were slotted, and i thought that would be the thing and it didn't happen p happen. >> wow, what an interview. thank you for sharing it with us. >> thanks, pamela. >>> and up next, president biden gives an address to a joint session of congress. join us for cnn's special live coverage starting we

the second is the one for things like childcare and housing, things that matter a lot to joe biden. you could put in that package, you can put election infrastructure and tie it to incentives for things like mail-in ballots. it is not a substitute for those federal, basic election rates. but it would be a good start. then you go on from there. and finally, the justice department is no longer bill barr's justice department. you've got people like vanita gupta, kristen clark, that are very serious about enforcing our election laws. i'm not ending here. this was the beginning. we're taking the rules committee to other field hearings. we're going to continue our work, factfinding and bringing our members out to hear the real stories from voters. >> taking it on the road. senator amy klobuchar, thank you for your time. >> thank you, don. >>> let's get some perspective now from someone from georgia and a leader in the fight for voting items. we're talking about stacey abrams, the founder of fair fight action. she joins me now. she was at the voting roundtable with senator klobuchar yester

it's really joe biden's privilege and they have decided to waive it. >> you know, someone else who has tried, um, to help donald trump push the big lie is conservative lawyer john eastman. and he -- he, of course, is the man who wrote that memo ahead of january 6th urging vice president pence to overturn the election. today, eastman says that he plans to claim fifth amendment protections when he shows up before the january 6th committee and this is just after, shan, you know, another key figure here, former-justice department official, jeffrey clark. he said he is going to do the same. and i am seeing this and i am wondering if you think this is some kind of a domino effect it's creating and kind of what it means in the bigger picture of the committee's investigation? >> yeah. i am actually just surprised no one else has taken the fifth, already. there's obvious potential criminal culpability here. there could be a referral. doj could already be looking at it. and so, they are right to be concerned. it seems like they may have been trying a two-pronged defense. the first is to put up t

joe biden is trying to get this country back on track. i don't think he necessarily needs to do a presidential commission. democrats should continue to remind republicans and the voters, who walked away from it. i want to say capito coming to the white house, this is how getting back to the normal washington. the reality is that the normal washington still was in this gridlock even before trump, where republicans and democrats could not align on policy. so i think we're at a point where we can try bipartisanship. we can try again. by the third time we have to focus on the people. we know overwhelmingly the people support these types of deals that president biden is pushing. it's those 50 senators and maybe a couple that have d's by their name that are not working for the people. >> i'm old enough to remember when the transportation infrastructure bill was the fattest piece of legislation and everybody voted for it because it meant millions for their home districts. go back a little bit further. let me ask you, you are a republican by who

. >> this is going to be the misdemeanor from hell for merrick garland, nancy pelosi, and joe biden. administrative state wants to take me on, bring it. we're here to fight this, and we're going to go on offense. you stand by. >> okay. a, what is he doing here? >> so he's clearly having the time of his life, to some extent, turning this into a circus, right? turning this into some effort to be a martyr. normally, you don't see a defendant say things like that after an arraignment. you see the lawyer talk, and it is more restrained. his lawyer has been talking, but bannon is using this to galvanize support for brannon, s he often does. >> david schoen will be on the show later talking to brianna. i understand you have reporting on whose idea it was to get him -- and he was one of trump's impeachment lawyers in february, second impeachment lawyers. whose idea was it to get him connected to bannon? >> i don't know whose idea it was. i have reporting that trump asked schoen to get involved in this, and schoen said yes. schoen, who did trump's impeachment, the second one, would not have b

president joe biden calling the verdict a giant step towards justice in america. i want to bring in now cnn senior analyst laura coates and marilyn mosby. we're thankful to have both of you on this evening. you say today's verdict will make it easier for you to answer your son when he asks, mommy, what if that happened to me? >> i mean, the impression that most of america has that we have but one conversation with our sons and daughters, it's a series of conversations. we're having them all the time. we're having them about interactions at home, conversations about officers. we're talking about this thing as a continuous thing. and now we at least have some way of showing them what a just society could look like. the idea of what justice looks like. the idea of having a trial where you don't have the thumb on the scale that undermines your ability to actually prosecute a case, undermines the ability to actually get evidence in, and you really have this idea and this way to contextualize what think son and daughter have been asking for over almost a year now and th

i think you would agree joe biden is the fairly elected president. >> of course he is. >> so this letter from jeffrey clark, what jumps out to me about this is he wrote it down. we're talking about the assistant attorney general in the department of justice. this is a high level official directly engaged in overturning the election results. what are the dangers there? >> could we just stop a second? >> sure. >> i'm not a shrink, but a lot of people seem to want to be shrinks and analyzing what happened in the 2020 election. so, i'll take my chance at it. there's a level of hysteria from your prior guests in this discussion that i think is very unhelpful in understanding what the nature of the problem we face is. and we do face a problem. i would characterize this way, it's donald trump who is a real aberration in american politics. so, before we draw sweeping conclusions from insufficient information, let's all take a deep breath. now, let me try to respond to your question which is a fair question. and to say in the reagan administration, i was an assistant attorney general in charge of

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60 points for joe biden. and glenn youngkin thinks he is going to pick up crucial votes there. i mean, that -- that's a pretty significant statement, just in and of itself. >> yeah. i mean, how many of those voters who voted for joe biden will now vote for glenn youngkin? i think that's -- that's the question. who portrays himself as kind of the suburban dad. he's very appealing. as we all know, for weeks and weeks and weeks, terry mcauliffe has tried to make glenn youngkin into donald trump. and um, i think that's really difficult. he's been very clever in the way he has navigated all of this. yes, donald trump has endorsed him and, yes, donald trump may get on a phone and talk about him tonight. um, but he has kind of kept him at arm's length while, at the same time, taking up conservative causes. talking about election integrity. rather than talking about the rigged election. >> right. >> talking about conservatives and what they want taught at their schools. being anti-mandate. so, he's done -- he's done

so if you are the democrats who returning ing running you can say this is what joe biden has done and what the democratic party is all about. i also think there's an anti-incumbent wave. and democrats got swept away by it, and i think in 2022, if you think about historically what happens to the president's party, there will likely be a continuation of that wave. there was some good news for this president this week. i think this idea that there could be a pill to battle covid. i think the rollout of vaccines for children. that's good news for this -- >> sure. good economic news today. good jobs report and revised the last two bad jobs reports to make them good. >> maybe by the time we get to 2022 there's a better climate. people feel better about the direction of the country. i also feel like these bills, i don't even know how much they're going to help democrats in 2022. >> do you agree? >> yeah. >> i think that the disarray, your new favorite word, creates an inside and outside problem. the inside problem for democrats is one of the ways you get your followers to take votes they may

close allies when president carter was in office, and joe biden was the senator as well. they've maintained that relationship throughout the course of the last several decades. they will be checking in, saying hello. we'll see if we see them at any point during this visit. president carter did not come to the inauguration, due to concerns about his age and the coronavirus pandemic. he has been vaccinated up to this point so we'll see if anything comes out of that meeting. i think when you look broadly over all at what the president's doing today in georgia, obviously this is the first stop in what's expected to be about ten days of extensive travel, top administration officials and cabinet officials as well to sell what he laid out in that primetime address, his $1.8 trillion proposal, to really reshape education and the social safety net for families in this country. it is ambitious. there's no question about it but there's also a recognition inside the white house that they are going to need to sell this, and they're going to need to sell this to the public. if you look

look, why does, for example, former president trump need to be extended an invitation from joe biden, president biden, to get out on the platform that he already enjoys and encourage people to do it? that's the right thing. you would think he would want to do it without being prompted. but that's not the case. >> he has zero interest in doing anything that he can't take full credit for. the vaccine. you think he'd push it so he can own it. next one, what do you got? >> next one that i've got is the filibuster. and i think there's a very difficult decision coming from president biden, because you know that this week he embraced the idea of at least bringing back the speaking filibuster. i don't think that's enough. i think that the clock is ticking, not for the least of which reason is his opportunity to serve a second term, i don't know that i see that. if you're joe biden, you want to get a heck of a lot more done than just the $1.9 trillion relief package, not that i'm undervaluing it, but there was a lot more he promised americans. so the calculus in the biden white house right now

. >> i don't know if joe biden's going to want to do that. that's the question. >> i was going see. seen resistance to that. haven't we, gloria? we'll see. thank you both so much. >>> and as house impeachment managers get ready to lay out their case against former president trump, a lot of questions what happened on the day of the riot and what role others played in the insurrection. john avlon is with me now. john, what are the big question marks you have as this trial is set to get overway. people might say we saw it all on tape. >> exactly right, brianna. we saw it unfold on realtime, damning videotape is out. there's still a lot of unanswered questions. for me, one, more information coming in about deployment of the national guard. we know the pentagon restricted the national guard in advance of the riot. we've seen subsequently a memo from acting secretary of defense miller about this. what we don't know, though, what's the full context around it? there may be an innocent observation, overcorrecting over the summer. given people trump put in firing a lot of longtime defense sec

joe biden needs this summit. of course, it's all in quotes. and he's there, you know, to show that he is strong. so these are elements, again, a lot of times for domestic consumption but they're very important. >> so, jill, to that point you say he doesn't need this summit. what is he trying to get out of it, then? we heard jim sciutto say earlier, you know, if things essentially stay the same that's a good thing for putin, not a good thing for biden. >> well, to a certain extent, yes, but i do think that, number one, president putin does want to be on the world stage. i mean, the way that he depicts and russia depicts russia itself and president putin is a major power, whereas at this moment we know that probably the biggest concern of the united states is china. so russia is happy to be on the stage and president putin and then i think, you know, when the united states talks about red lines, vladimir putin has some red lines of his own and they deal with the neighborhood, ukraine, belarus, and his message is i've got my area of interest, you

for joe biden, obviously, by a wide margin, gavren newsom during the last election, comfortable lead here. he's from this area. in and around the bay area. it's a sea of blue. you have to get farther out near sacramento into some of the counties near nevada to even see republicans having the ability to push over 50 %. but what i'm hearing in talking to democratic consultants, it's about turnout. they don't want voters to look at this as any regular election, where the democrats run the state. they sweep the statewide offices because of the fact that this is a heavily blue area, they want to ensure that they have the volume, they have as many voters here as possible coming out, casting their ballot, doing it by mail in order to try to upset some of the potential surges we might see in other parts of the state in those redder areas. >> and it's a dynamic race right now. we'll continue to follow the developments. thank you, josh campbell, nick watt. a reminder, we'll have live coverage, special coverage of this recall election tonight here on cnn beginning at 10:00 eastern. the polls cl

what do you need to see from joe biden to show he wants to go big? what is big? what does that look like? >> looking at the system itself. we don't have to agree on the specificities and the particularities of police reform but we need teeth in these oversight committees that are charged with looking at the police. if you don't want to defund the police, fine, if that's your position to reform them, then have real reform, put teeth in those committees, are subpoena power assigned to them, look at ways to distribute more equitably. use your bully pulpit to identify with the victims of misconduct and deep and profound injustice in this country. >> so my brother and my mentor, when we get closer into the forensics i want you back to talk about what the forensics mean in terms of people's reckoning of what this is really about. because i think it was a wake-up call for a lot of allies in our society, people like me, white, i don't live it, i don't understand it, i'll never be able to imagine it, but when i hear it from the people i care about i listen. and when peopl

it will be, he's criticizing joe biden. >> you worked in the white house. i said it, the perfect person, both of you the perfect people of the do you think the former president thought co-do more for race relations as a symbol, rather than actually moving things forward with specific policy or speeches? do you understand what i'm saying? >> sure. >> we did everything in our capability in executive office to move things forward. i started working in the obama administration a month before michael brown was murdered. we had not had that type of protest at least as i saw, with black lives matter and the call for racial justice. we brought people there the streets protesting in the conversation. we made sure when we were doing criminal justice reform, we were bringing formerly incarcerated people into the white house which wasn't even allowed before. but we would do executive orders but then there was someone always on capitol hill, mitch mcconnell and people just like we're following now, that the legislation when we tried to pass things, it seemed to have bip

number one, that joe biden won and is the legitimate president and number two, they he doesn't agree with the federalizing of the national election system. it's possible the hold both views and that's the view he holds. there was not enough fraud or no fraud sufficient to overturn the election as donald trump argues. but at the same time it's his view that we don't have to federalize the election system. it's a pretty clear position, and he's made that position very well known every single day. now, he can't control the statements of everybody in his conference, but i think his position has been well known and well stated and he has never wavered from it one day. >> but these guys police each other all the time when they want to. if people said, i don't think we need a tax cut, in 2016, 2017, he would have said things to them privately and publicly. i don't agree with that. i don't think it's a big deal. not with these two things. my point is -- not to malign mcconnell, i just think he's a player in the game. it's the game i hate. what i'm saying is how comfortable are you as a repub

joe biden? >> no, actually, i didn't. >> you never asked anything about joe biden? >> the only thing i asked about joe biden is to get to the bottom of how it was that wothe dismissed the case against -- >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden? >> of course i did. >> you just said you didn't. >> reporter: they threatened to withhold military aid to ukraine and withheld a white house visit for the newly elected ukrainian president in order to furth ir their efforts. the main focus of trump's first impeachment trial. investigators also want to know if giuliani acted as an illegal lobbyist on behalf of ukrainian officials. for example, giuliani's insistence that the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovich be fired. trump did eventually fire the ambass ambassador. >> our ukraine policy has been thrown into chaos. >> reporter: two ukrainian associates of giuliani's were indicted in 2019 on several charges, including illegally funneling foreign money to pro-trump political groups. igor f

and there are a few politicians who really get that at their core like joe biden. and, you know, that was a big part of what he was doing tonight in addition to the policy prescriptions, in addition to the promises that he made that kaitlan was talking about. >> let's talk a little bit more about the promises. he relay aid story about a woman he met on the campaign trail this past summer who said, i just want you to tell me the truth, i can handle it. and he believes americans want the truth. so, having said that from the very beginning, dana, president biden has been managing expectations and then trying to exceed them. now people are going to be very excited about may 1st and getting life back to normal soon after. is that a risky promise? >> yes, it is a risky promise. but, you know, the fact that this president who understands the expectations game when it comes to politics and when it cops to leadership felt that he could say, and his advisers felt that he could say may 1st, speaks to the confidence that he clearly has with regard to the supply because, you kn

trump signaled he won't congratulate president-elect joe biden on his inauguration day, tweeting he won't be going, giving the capitol a break from having the instigator on chief on hand for the transfer of power. >> if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. >> reporter: our sources tell us the president and first lady are expected to leave for mr. trump's mar-a-lago resort on january 19, one day before the inauguration. obviously with the president and the way things are going these days, those plans could change. to this date the president still has not taken any responsibility for what happened a couple of days ago. he has not offered any apologies for what happened on january 6. wolf, let's go back to this video that was captured at reagan national airport earlier today, senator lindsey graham, one of the president's long-time loyalists, once a critic of the president, then became a loyalist, arriving at the airport earlier this afternoon. he was met by an angry mob of trump supporters screaming "traitor" at him. we've seen this kind of hostility, typic

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but joe biden comes out of the tradition of american foreign policy that built this open rules-based international order. in an interview with me on cnn last week, jake sullivan, the national security adviser, clearly laid out the goal of u.s. policy towards china. >> the object of the biden administration is to shape the international environment so that it is more favorable to the interests and values of the united states and its allies and partners to like-minded democracies. >> he elaborated on what the international environment should look like. >> a open, fair, free international economic system and where basic values and norms that are enshrined in the universal declaration of human rights are respected in international institutions. >> now, can both of these objectives be pursued at the same time? in 2019 sullivan and kurt campbell, now his top aide on the indo-pacific at the white house, co-authored a foreign affairs essay that tried to thread the needle intelligently, arguing the key will be to get right, the balance between cooperation and competition, with china. the essa

president joe biden asked that the measure be approved by the anniversary of floyd's death in may, but it remains in negotiations. he weighed in on chauvin's sentence from the white house. let's listen. >> well, i don't know all the circumstances that were considered, but it seems to me under the guidelines, they seem to be appropriate. >> now, earlier, i spoke with anika buoy, the vice president of the minneapolis naacp and she talked about where the community goes from here, and whether chauvin's lengthy sentence represents a turning point. here she is. >> i think it gives a sense of accountability and a sense of justice to george floyd's family who we want to send our deepest gratitude, who held strong throughout this slow and steady process of our judicial system. but let's be clear. black people in minneapolis alone, aside from the entire nation, knew that derek chauvin was guilty prior to the murder of george floyd. this is an officer who was part of a police department who has hundreds and hundreds of lives on their hand, right? it is very clear that we know that the minneapolis

he has not called joe biden. joe biden won the election. he won the election. donald trump had every right to challenge it. to ask for recounts, to go to court. he did that. and more than 60 times, judges, including judges he appointed told him to go away. you have no evidence. he does not have the grace to call the president-elect. he was not. we'll see if it happens. he's not planning to adhere to the tradition of leaving a note. maybe part of this is the covid era, but no meeting at the white house, nothing to show respect for the office and respect for the democracy. it's more than awkward. it's reprehensible. but it's a testament to what we have seen for four years. this has been the grievance, grievance presidency every day. it's the mexicans' fault, black people's fight, rinos fault, meaning republicans in name only. it's mike pence's fault that he wouldn't stand up for the president in the capitol building. president trump always blamed somebody else which is part of the turning of the page we'll see. joe biden's personal tragedy to become president now

joe biden is the polar opposite. he really respect the tradition, obviously jimmy carter is the oldest president and he was going to georgia, but he's reached out to george w. bush and he talks, i'm told, regularly to former president obama. this is classic joe biden, alisyn. >> the president is in georgia to sell the legislation that he fleshed out for the american people yesterday, and, of course, we heard immediately after that the pushback from senator tim scott as well. where do the potential -- where is, i should say, the potential for any bipartisan movement forward on this, which we know senator manchin says he will need at least an attempt at to support it? >> yeah, it's a complex die tp dynamic to say the least, and there's the $2.25 trillion plan from last month, and you have seen a group of senate republicans put on the table their own physical infrastructure proposal, considerably smaller, $600 billion, and white house officials believe it's not going to be enough, but the staffs have been going back and

in the sacramento bee's editorial he said i do believe joe biden won the election fairly and scarquarely. he said the truth. a few years later he said i want a mulligan and says i didn't believe that. so is this actually just like that is maybe the perfect example of what it is to be a republican running for office? you have to knowingly lie about something so fundamental to get the backing of their own party? >> that should be the concern or at least the majority or plurality of republican voters. the candidate side of this ballot question is really functioning like a republican primary in california because there is no democrat. no democrat politician is running asking democrats for their vote. so candidates like elder are running like it's a close republican primary and trying to appeal to a very small minority, about 3.2 million voters out of 20 million some odd voters, more than that that are registered trying to appeal to them to be the top vote getter. so it shows no inclination of wanting to broaden beyond a base and actually win a seat in a blue state like california. elder is j

>> well, he also needs to keep in mind the 81 million who voted for joe biden and kamala harris. they kind of leave that out of the equation. it was basically not close. i -- i just think -- and also, this exacerbates, again, shows how -- how glaring this misadvise, wrongful advice was by eastman, someone who should have known better because look who he is dealing with. he was dealing with mike pence who he won sycophant of the year four years running against some very, very tough competition. so this is a guy who wanted to please president trump. he wanted to, you know, get patted on the head again. but even he couldn't do it. even with this former dean of a law school giving him these bogus reasons why, supposedly, he could do it. so pence. i don't know what his problem is. he's a sad, sad character. that's all i can say. it's almost shakespearean in its sadness. >> well, so much shakespearean about this. thank you so much, i appreciate your time, grant. >> okay. thanks, erin. >>> and next, trump's former-press secretary who once touted the administration's response to the pand

do you think -- nicole, do you think joe biden has president can get it done now? >> i believe president biden absolutely has the will and the empathy to make this happen. it really relies on the senate right now, the house is ready. we know that. the senate stalled eight years ago, and failed us then. we have -- if this has to be a bipartisan issue, though, you have to have both sides want this because this isn't a partisan issue, this is a people partisan issue, this is about what is going to protect people and save lives across the country every single day, not just the mass shootings. the senate needs to listen to the polls. back in 2013, background checks were still supported by the vast majority of people, including gun owners. this year the numbers are even higher. what will it take for the senate to say, hey, i have been voted into position to protect my constituents, and my constituents want this. avoid the lobbyist wanting you to vote another way, and background checks is not a partisan vote, it's the right thing to vote for and the senate needs to move o

the russians were trying to damage then candidate joe biden ahead of the 2020 election. joining us now, cnn senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi deputy director andy mccabe. andy, these defensive intelligence briefings that were given to rudy giuliani and then ron johnson, how big of a deal is this? what does it tell you? giuliani and johnson are trying to dismiss it as not a thing. >> it is a thing. one, if the fbi sits someone down to give them a briefing, they're essentially telling them they think they've been targeted by a hostile intelligence service. they don't do that without a lot of very clear information that indicates that's going on. this isn't just something they do as, you know, maybe a just-in-case sort of measure. they only do it when it indicates it's necessary. the second thing is once giving a briefing is seeing how a person reacts after the fact. most will curtail their activities or cut off their contact with the person or persons in question. if you don't do that, it really sends a very strong message to the investigators that now that you

biden's election win. pence himself was forced into hiding with his wife and daughter as the mob stormed the capitol. who does pence now sort of blame or where is he now deflecting some of the blame for that? listen. >> i know the media wants to distract from the biden administration's failed agenda by focusing on one day in january, they want to use that one day to try and demean the character and intentions of 74 million americans who believed we could be strong again and prosperous again and supported our administration in 2016 and 2020. >> joining us now, democratic congressman james clyburn, the house majority whip. congressman, thanks so much for being with us. what is the consequence, do you think, of the former vice president deflecting blame to the media and somehow diminishing what happened on that day, january 6th? >> first of all, thank you very much for having me. you know, it is a shame for pence, who has been around a long time, out of indiana, served in the congress, vice president, for him